Right Whales

The federal government is expanding a protected zone off of New England to attempt to protect endangered right whales.

Whales spotting is causing fishing boats to slow down off of Nantucket.

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) - Marine authorities in the U.S. and Canada say they will marshal resources to try to find out what's behind a string of deaths of endangered North Atlantic right whales. Representatives of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and Fisheries and Oceans Canada announced the effort on Friday...

The Division of Marine Fisheries (DMF) is urging boaters to use extreme caution if operating in Cape Cod Bay, due to unusually large aggregations of North Atlantic right whales that are congregating and feeding in that area. A record number of right whales have recently been observed in Cape Cod Bay...

The Center for Coastal Studies reports that a large cluster of endangered right whales is feeding in the Cape Cod Bay. The Provincetown-based nonprofit group reported Friday that about 100 whales are concentrated near the western shore of Cape Cod Bay and near the entrance to the Cape Cod Canal ...

Two torpedo-shaped marine robots have been busy detecting, and protecting, rare North Atlantic right whales in the Gulf of Maine.       The robots, called gliders, were deployed by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution researchers between mid-November and early December...